Danger! High Jumpage: Joe Danger

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A few months back I met up with Hello Games, a new British indie who emerged from places like Criterion, Sumo, Kuju, EA and Climax. And since there’s four of them, that’s a fairly impressive roster. Anyway! They’ve made their game public and while it’s a little off – Spring next year – I wanted to bring it to your attention. It’s called Joe Danger and it’s a much more free-flowing stunt-lead Trials 2 with a whole splash of Trackmania. I’d direct you to the hands-on with the ever-lovin’ Jon Hamblin over at Eurogamer for more information, and some splendid quotes. Oh – you can guarantee it’ll lead on a console, unless people like us make a lot of noise about it. On Steam first! Didn’t hurt Trials 2!

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although.. a most important question doesn’t seem to be answered by the EG article. does it have multiplayer? a yes could turn it into a party favorite, while a no would prolly make it just something nice-ish to pass the time every now and then.

I’d be dead happy with ‘Games You Can Complete In One Sunday Morning, Possibly While Hungover’ being a recognised genre – where there is no stigma attached to a game being small and focused (and cheap, obvs).

The feature-bloat that happens, not because the game-design calls out for it, but because the developers need to make the game look like a ‘real’ game is quite exhausting to me. Switchball, for example, is a marble-madness type game that filled a lovely couple of hours – and had multiplayer. Why?

If there are such games, RPS, make an article to tell me about them! And I hope this game is dead good and succesful, and has multiplayer On One PC.